Today we take another trip through our gallery of images. These have been provided by our esteemed Co-Editor, Dale Williams Barrigar, who has a wonderfully crooked eye!–Leila
The Saragun Gallery Presents the Second Showing of Dale Williams Barrigar
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It is refreshing to see images that do not contain food or “here we grow again” messages.
The theme (I see, anyway) is consistent with death, despair, threat and salvation. Now “halo” might actually be (as I see it) “waiting” as in angel’s paitence and not despair.
Both you and CJA have the knack of the eye (oh, I like that, Irish sounding “d’ knack o’ d’ eye”).
Thank you!
Leila
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Hi Leila!
William Blake said he preferred “the Crooked Road,” and when he said that he was talking about Art, so I can’t thank you enough for saying I have a crooked eye, actually I try to! Thank you!
Death despair threat and salvation also wonderful words for this. October seemed like a good month for such explorations.
The halo is a symbol of something, and AMBIGUITY is (of course) the key.
Because we don’t have all the answers, and anyone who thinks they do have all the answers (and runs around preaching about it at churches or political rallies) is a fool.
Yes, AMBIGUITY and asking questions is what the best Art is always about.
Thank you for curating these and for your wonderful responses and poetic descriptions!
Dale
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Hi Dale
Indeed the crooked eye (which for me is the ability to see around corners) is a vast and supreme super power!
Leila
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Wow and whoa that’s spooky and cool (almost scary), and then again, I do know I also have the Crooked Eye, now that ya mention it! (not that I’m not blind sometimes too…)
D
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Hi Dale
Wow these are great!! It’s really neat to see the overlap of a writer and a photographer! The story telling! That is what is really neat about this site! It’s not strictly writing.
The photojournalism and the art of your work comes through! I do a lot of nature photography trying to get “lifers” as we call new species. I also do these kinds of artistic and editorial captures. The abstract subject captures my mind, along with repetition–fences and such.
I love the artistic composition in these!
The grounds and background disarray of the cemetery is profound! Cemeteries tell hundreds of stories all at once–all with the same ending,
The fade shot of the person on the phone tells us about an unfocused reality.
“Underwater” is a startling considering the hospital bed and the shark.
It’s great to see your commitment to the environment in the pond picture. Yesterday we were at a nature park surrounded by ponds and a river.
The last picture is so telling. The mind suck of TV.
Christopher
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Hi Christopher!
Yes! The SaragunSprings site aims to reinvent the art of Photography in an age when almost everyone has a camera in their pocket, or in their hand.
I see it as A DUTY to bring story-telling AMBIGUITY and crooked BEAUTY to the photograph.
As when “everyone” wrote Sonnets in Shakespeare’s day, all are taking pictures now, but precious few are artistic about it. Hardly any, among all the billions taking pictures, are making it artistic!
It’s wild and cool that yourself, Leila, and I, in three separate states, have all come to the same artistic conclusion about this.
I saw your recent round of upcoming photos for The Springs. The way you can capture the spirit of a wild animal is like a Native American!
In the age of the “face book” (purposely spelled like that), I abhor the photo where everyone dresses up in their best brand-name clothes, photoshops out their endearing human imperfections, and BEAMS OUT their best FAKE SMILE at the world, as if such were something the world needed to see! This kind of crap is nothing short of brainless Conformity and Mindless Consumerism.
We are stuck with The Screen. We need to make it Real and Beautiful, Deep and True, somehow. In an AUTHENTICALLY HUMAN way.
LIFE is Authentic and Ambiguous. I like my art the same way.
The Cave Paintings were both. The cave people were making better art than all these fools with their cameras do.
The Springs will rectify this! That’s why it’s called AVANT-GARDE ART!
See Literally a little later today or whenever you can, I have some more commentary I want to place with your story over there………about the Bible……
Dale
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Hi Christopher!
I see now that the long manifesto-like response I wrote to your commentary earlier somehow DISAPPEARED, almost as if it were a great writer in Stalin’s Russia!
Anyway, I said a lotta interesting things in response to yours that I’ll try to recreate later. Essential things, actually! (Which is all I ever try to say ever anywhere, believing gossip and small talk to be a sin – mostly!)
(Jesus said, “It’s not what goes into your mouth that makes you bad – it’s what comes out of it!”)
Thanks for great comments, and for “getting” these pictures!
I saw yours for the next round, you capture the spirit of an animal like a Native American!
See LITERALLY under your “Indy” tale for more on the Bible!
More about the Art of Photography in the Age of the Ubiquitous Camera Phone later!
But YES, the Springs is hell bent on creating a pictorial revolution and YOU are a huge part of that!
Dale
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Hi Dale
Too bad about your lost comment that’s rough! I hate when that happens. That’s a lot of work to recreate.
That’s funny about the Stalin writer!
(Jesus said, “It’s not what goes into your mouth that makes you bad – it’s what comes out of it!”)
If people would think of what really defiles them. It’s their very own sharp and gossiping tongues. If they don’t read the Bible they may never know–blaming and judging others their entire lives sinking in their own filth.
Very cool on the picture REV on the Springs!
Christopher
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Well done, Dale. You have the photographer’s eye, which is something I could never develop.
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Hi David!
One of my tricks in Photography is just simple Selectivity, which means I take dozens for every one I think is truly good and lasting.
But the rest of the time isn’t a waste, because it does help train the eye to do it.
Well, you could never train the eye for photography; but I could never play the piano, so I guess we’re equal! At least we both love dogs!
Thank you for the compliment!
Dale
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